Originally posted by The Cusp
Looks like a gravel pit to me. Much like the one we used to have pellet gun wars in when I was a kid.

I work in a gravel pit, I would say that is not what it appears to be. The company I work for is however involved in remediation and this looks a lot
closer to what we do. I've also worked in the mining industry as mentioned before, all stages from surveying to recovery and must say it closely
resembles an heap-leaching operation as well, but that is merely my opinion.

No big mystery about this site. It is a catchment area for the waste material from mineral extraction. Usually something like GOLD MINING. The Gold is
not in a metallic form. It exists as "Ghost Gold" which is something like gold sulphate and dangerous toxic chemicals or high power electrolosis are
used to get the gold ions to separate from the sulphate ions. In the process the gold metal is taken away to be melted into bricks of gold bullion,
whilst the sulphates "salts" and other crud is simply left in the catchment area that you're wondering about. It has that distinctive blue grey
colour because of unique metalic oxides in the mud of it. It is possible that the crud is contaminating the local ground water. Which is something the
local population are probably having problems with. Especially if the crud contains metals like lead or mercury oxides ? Thankyou for wondering about
it. Certain environmentalists might want to look into the site on the ground. Collecting samples for chemical analysis.

Normally, In these processes, the toxic chemicals are neutralized and the remainder is contained, providing the company and oversight involved are
"responsible". The fact that it is where it is at, I would'nt be sure whether or not the deposits were properly handled.

Reminds me of this, this is a salt pile in the area where I live, they cover it with tarps to protect the salt from weather. They have huge ships
that bring it in and the dump it here and then they have a facility (seen on map) where they package it. My guess it's some mineral they are storing
and/or prepping for packaging.

Originally posted by Mindcrime30
I love how people cant read a few pages before posting. The answer was found in page 4 fyi... but continue speculating if you wish

Half the people are at work and doing some sneaky ATS reading and cannot stand not to get a comment in. i don't see it as a problem, a lot of people
do not have the time it takes to read through pages and pages but still want to add their thoughts as maybe no one else considered their thought.

To me it almost looks like a large pool.....if you look at the smaller areas of the same color...there are palm trees placed just right...which would
seem like a pond, or in ground hot tub..or smaller pool...etc....maybe a manmade natural pool? or manmade large pond? thats almost what it looks like
to me. The darker area is a drop down from the tan dirt on the edges...almost cliff like...exceppt the dark grey is shiny..like glass/water..,so, it
looks like it drops down, but in reality I think we are simply seeing the inside of it..so, like I said...a pool? some type of water reservoir. Etc.

by the shadows it's actually above ground. there is water diverted around it. the white spots that look like waves are a wrinkled shiny blue
covering. almost looks like a map of Mexico with Cozumel at the tip. My guess is a coc aine production facility complete with previously blown up
buildings, diverted water supply and storage or maybe fuel tanks.

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